Two hundred men looked for Tom and Becky in the
cave. They looked for three days, but they didn’t find
them. People in the town were very sad.
Chapter 9 Huck’s Adventure
Huck didn’t go on Becky’s adventure.
He stayed home
and watched Injun Joe’s house that night. At eleven
o’clock Injun Joe and his friend came out and walked
down the street. There was a box in his friend’s hands.
Huck said quietly, “Maybe that’s the treasure box.” He
went after the two men.
They walked to Mrs. Douglas’s house and stopped in her
yard. Huck stayed behind some small trees. The men
talked, and Huck listened to them.
Injun Joe was angry. “I
want to kill her,” he said to his
friend. “Mr. Douglas was bad to me. He’s dead now, but I
remember.”
“’There are a lot of lights in the house. Maybe her
friends are visiting,” Injun Joe’s friend said. “We can
come back tomorrow.”
“No,” Injun Joe said. “Let’s wait now.”
Huck liked Mrs. Douglas
because she was always good
to him. He wanted to help her. He quietly walked away
and then he started to run to Mr. Jones’s house.
Mr. Jones opened the door. “What do you want?” he
asked Huck.
“Injun Joe and his friend are in Mrs. Douglas’s yard,”
Huck said. “They want to kill her. Can you go there and
help Mrs. Douglas?”
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“Yes. My sons and I can go there,” Mr. Jones
answered. “You can go home.”
In
the morning, Huck went back to Mr. Jones’s house.
“How’s Mrs. Douglas?” he asked.
“She’s OK,” Mr. Jones answered. “The men went away
because we arrived.”
“Good,” Huck said. But he was afraid of Injun Joe.
“Please don’t say my name to Mrs. Douglas.”
Mr. Jones looked at him, and then he said, “You aren’t
well. Go and sleep in my bedroom.”
Later, Mrs. Douglas visited Mr. Jones.
“You helped me yesterday night. Thank you,” she said.
“You’re a good man.”
Mr. Jones said, “We didn’t
know about the men in your
yard. A boy was there and he wanted to help you. He came
here, but I can’t say his name.”
Mr. Jones and Mrs. Douglas went to church. People
there talked about Tom and Becky. Mr. Jones and his sons
went to the cave with the men, but on Monday morning
they went home. Huck was in bed and was very sick. The
men
went back to the cave, but Mrs. Douglas stayed with
Huck.
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